JetBrains Special: Rider Tips & Tricks plus Build Automation Tool Nuke

Hello .NET Enthusiasts!

We're thrilled to announce our upcoming meetup, set to be a standout event with a very special guest, Matthias Koch, a renowned developer and advocate in the .NET community. Whether you're a seasoned pro or just starting out with .NET, this is the perfect opportunity to gain insights from one of the leading voices in our field.

Matthias is a Developer Advocate for the .NET department at JetBrains, a passionate C# developer who likes to talk about clean code, testing, and tooling in general. He devotes much of his spare time to his very own open-source projects.

Here are the talk abstracts:

### Build Automation Revolution with NUKE

Solid and scalable CI/CD pipelines are essential for being competitive and creating a great product. But why are most of us a little afraid of touching YAML files and don't even dare to look at build scripts? Much of this is because C# developers are spoiled with a great language and smart IDEs, and they don't like missing their buddy for code-completion, ease of debugging, refactorings, and code formatting.

NUKE brings your build automation to an even level with every other .NET project. How? It's a regular console application allowing all the OOP goodness! Besides, it solves many common problems in build automation, like parameter injection, path separator abstraction, access to solution and project models, and build step sharing across repositories. To conclude your build revolution, NUKE can generate CI/CD configurations (YAML, etc.) that automatically parallelize build steps on multiple agents to optimize throughput!

### JetBrains Rider – Tips & Tricks

Meet the most productive IDE for cross-platform .NET development. Rider is based on JetBrains’ two flagship products – namely IntelliJ IDEA and ReSharper. Its multi-process architecture ensures a smooth typing experience. Features from the IDEA front-end include a mature VCS integration, local history support, run configurations, database integration, and thousands of plugins. Commonly known ReSharper features like quick-fixes, navigation, refactorings, and code inspections are also available. Beyond that, Rider includes a powerful debugger, on-the-fly decompilation, an Azure and AWS toolkit, support for SpecFlow and Avalonia, and much more.